Red Faction: Armageddon Details, Media Released

Red Faction 4 has been known to exist in some form for some time now, and many have even known the supposed title of this game, because of some registered domains that were dug up. Recently Red Faction: Armageddon was announced this month before E3.

Volition will once again take the reigns on this title as the game’s events will take you back to Mars, and sees characters underground, much like the first game in the series. It’s also a third person action title like 2009’s Red Faction: Guerrilla, and so far has been compared to Dead Space or even Doom 3, looking at the screenshots and the trailer which have been made public.

In the game you’ll play as Darius Mason, grandson of Alec Mason from RFG, and destroy environments as in tradition in Red Faction games with Geo-Mod 2.0 tech, with some physic based weapons like a Magnet Gun, and you’ll get to try all this out in singleplayer and co-operative modes. According to a THQ press release, the game is set underground 50 years after the events of RFG, because the surface has been rendered uninhabitable, and there’s a war on.

The game should be out next year, with the game scheduled for a March 2011 release date, with the PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 as set platforms.

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Sources: Red Faction: Armageddon trailer, images surface [Destructoid]

Red Faction: Armageddon Details, Media Released

Reinforcements Have Arrived: Metro 2033 and GTA: Episodes From Liberty City

    

How did you like the Worms reference? Remember that? Anyway, I got some new games over the weekend: Metro 2033, and GTA: Episodes from Liberty City.

I bought Metro 2033, only to discover that it came bundled with one of THQ’s other games, Red Faction: Guerrilla, which I bought last year. I could have saved a bit of cash there I suppose. It’s also ironic that I was playing RFG the other day, and yet now it doesn’t work. Weird. Probably making way for Metro!

The other game, GTA: Episodes from Liberty City, includes the two DLC packs for GTA IV: The Lost and Damned, and The Ballad of Gay Tony. Admittedly, I didn’t get around to playing GTA IV, but I saw that this DLC bundle is standalone, and doesn’t require GTA IV to be installed. So I got that as well.

Reinforcements Have Arrived: Metro 2033 and GTA: Episodes From Liberty City

Red Faction TV Movie Coming, Possible TV Series to Follow

I’ve been playing the latest Red Faction offering, Guerrilla, for the past week or two, and enjoyed it so much I decided that this little piece of news was worth covering.

Reports say that THQ, the publisher of the Red Faction games, has made a deal with the SyFy channel to produce a two hour, direct to TV movie based on the Red Faction series of games. If this gets a lot of attention, it could mean a full on series.

SyFy Ventures senior VP Alan Seiffert:

"It is the kind of content that fits our genre. It is a great fit for a big Syfy Saturday movie, and if it really works, it is a great back-door pilot."

"Both 'Ghost Hunters' and 'Red Faction' are great examples of how we are absolutely committed to gaming, and it is going to be more than just taking the name, it is going to really be part of the overall experience.”

In addition to all this, it’s been said that SyFy will be involved with the next Red Faction game, possibly as a co-developer with SyFy Games, rumoured to be titled Red Faction 4.

Will we see this in SA? Seeing as Ghost Hunters airs on the M-Net Action channel on DSTV [Channel 106 – previously known as Action-X], Red Faction will likely show up on the same channel some time. I’m thinking that a Red Faction TV series could work. Then again, so could a Half-Life 2 one. They’re more similar than you think.

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Source: Broadcasting & Cable

Red Faction TV Movie Coming, Possible TV Series to Follow